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<span class="mu-s">Viktoria Walker</span>
Viktoria decided to focus on the most important thing here: Hygiene and Self-Care.
Who knows when she could suddenly drop dead from measles or something. Of to the bathroom she went.
The bathroom was the first difference she saw.
The bathtub, instead of being metal or something similar, was made out of some sort of white, hard material. Viktoria would compare it to stone, except she can tell that the material doesn’t have the consistency of stone by sight. Touching it with her hands confirms it outright.
It also confirmed that this tub was completely clean.
Viktoria tears her eyes away from the tub and directs it to the soap. It’s not a bar, but rather some sort of viscous liquid. She took a look at the list of chemicals inside and breathed a sigh of relief. They finally got rid of all of the ridiculous carcinogens and other such things! But now the problem is that she has no idea what <span class="mu-i">any</span> of these chemicals are. She guesses that she now has to trust in the goodwill that authorities must have gained over time.
Despite being a member of the Elite herself, Viktoria doesn’t feel very comfortable.
But it’s either using the soap or not being clean. She knows the correct answer to this crossroad: Cleanliness is next to Godliness!
Viktoria strips, throws her clothes onto the bed (there were no hangers, unfortunately), and inspects the next difference in technology: this metallic nozzle hung up next to the bathtub. Unlike the black box of chemicals that was the soap, Viktoria has a decent idea of how the nozzle may work.
It taps into the water system surrounding the building and manipulates the water flow to spew water into the tub or at the person at high speeds. A shower of water, if you will. It would theoretically be faster than a bath, that is for sure, especially if Mister Bazalgette was able to clean up the sewage and River Thames then spread his influence. Viktoria briefly wonders if the Bazalgette family are still around in some form.
There are two knobs in the bathtub, one is red, the other is blue. As a test, Viktoria twists the red knob. As expected, water comes out of the nozzle. The temperature is a bit unexpected.
Viktoria: “Oh, it is warm water- <span class="mu-r">£+!=</span>”
She twists the knob in the opposite direction after making a ghastly sound. Why was the water that hot?! Were they expecting to cauterise wounds in this tub?! Maybe Viktoria will have more luck with the blue knob.
That guess was correct, it seems. The water was refreshingly cold instead of scalding hot.
She squeezes the soap onto her hands and rubs it into a white lather, but it gets washed out of her hands quickly by the shower. She needs some kind of porous sponge…
And how serendipitous! There’s a yellow porous sponge right next to her in the tub! These future conveniences are great!
